With a soft "creak", the dormitory door slowly swung open. The first thing that hit one was a sense of suffocation. Yu Nian surveyed the surroundings. Due to moisture, the wall paint was peeling off in patches. The room faced north, so the lighting was poor. From afar in the corridor came Xiao Shanya's complaints: "How can anyone live in such a shabby place?"
Yu Nian turned her head slightly and saw Yang Xiaoting and Xiao Shanya walking towards her dormitory one after another. They both froze when they saw Yu Nian.
Yang Xiaoting's gloomy face instantly brightened up. She rushed to Yu Nian's side as if seeing a loved one: "Great, Niannian. You're in this dorm too!" She paused for a moment, stole a glance at Xiao Shanya, and whispered, "It would be great if it were just the two of us in the dorm. Now there's this Xiao Shanya. It's really uncomfortable."
Xiao Shanya haughtily raised her head and strode into the dormitory. As she passed by Yu Nian, she let out a cold snort: "Bad luck."
The dormitory building had standard four - person rooms. Yu Nian was the first to arrive and placed her schoolbag on the left - hand bed near the window.
Xiao Shanya walked straight up to Yu Nian, her face full of arrogance: "I want to sleep in this bed."
After saying that, she unceremoniously threw Yu Nian's schoolbag on the ground.
Yang Xiaoting couldn't stand it and stepped forward to pick up the schoolbag: "We're all classmates. Isn't it a bit too much for you to be so arrogant?"
A hint of mockery curled up at the corner of Xiao Shanya's mouth. She calmly sat on the bed: "It's your honor to be my classmate. If you can't stand me, you can just move out."
"You!" Yang Xiaoting's face flushed with anger. She was about to argue with Xiao Shanya when Yu Nian gently grabbed her wrist.
Yu Nian looked at the bed board under Xiao Shanya that was tainted with a strong aura of resentment and slightly raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure you want to switch?"
Xiao Shanya rolled her eyes. She took Yu Nian's reminder as a threat and her tone grew even more unpleasant: "Can't you understand human language?"
Yu Nian smiled calmly and said nothing more.
As night fell, the entire dormitory building was plunged into a silent darkness.
Xiao Shanya was half - asleep when she turned over. A cool sensation brushed across her cheek. She frowned, thinking it was just an illusion, and turned over to go back to sleep.
But unexpectedly, the cold feeling became clearer. It was as if something dead and lifeless was clinging tightly to her back, constantly blowing on the back of her ear.
Then, a "creak, creak" sound echoed in the empty room, as if someone was constantly shaking the bed frame.
Xiao Shanya instantly lost all drowsiness. She opened her eyes blankly but saw nothing.
Recalling the strange things that had been circulating in the school recently, Xiao Shanya suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
She summoned up her courage and surveyed the surroundings. Yu Nian at the door was breathing steadily, and Yang Xiaoting on the opposite bed was sleeping soundly. Only the person on the bed opposite her was tossing and turning, as if about to get up.
Xiao Shanya's hanging heart relaxed. She cursed, "Are you crazy? What are you doing wandering around in the middle of the night!"
The room was silent for three seconds. Only then did Xiao Shanya suddenly realize that there had only been the three of them in this dormitory all along!
So what on earth was that thing on the opposite bed?!
She instinctively wanted to scream but found that her throat seemed to be choked and she couldn't make a sound.
The figure on the opposite bed slowly sat up and crawled towards her in an extremely strange posture.
As the light and shadow shifted, Xiao Shanya couldn't even make out the face of the thing. It was as if a mist of resentment and misfortune had tightly wrapped around the monster. The only things clearly visible were its long black hair and bluish - tinted skin.
The cold air was gradually approaching. Just as the thing was about to climb onto her bed, a pale golden light flew over and landed precisely on the female ghost in front of her.
After a shrill scream, the female ghost suddenly disappeared.
Yu Nian stood in the middle of the dormitory, with a few yellow talisman papers still in her hand.
Yang Xiaoting was also awakened by the commotion and looked blankly at her two roommates.
In the silence, there was a soft "snap". The drawer under Xiao Shanya's bed actually opened by itself.
Xiao Shanya could no longer hold back her fear and let out a sharp scream.
It was one o'clock in the morning, and the entire dormitory building was out of power. Yu Nian walked up to the drawer and saw that there was only a photo inside.
In the moonlight, the photo was a bit yellowed. It was a picture of a man and a woman. The girl was slender, wearing a white dress, and smiling happily and brightly. The man was tall and straight, with an extraordinary bearing.
Strangely enough, the face of the man in the photo had been burned off with a cigarette butt.
Yu Nian flipped the photo over and saw a line of delicate handwriting: "You were born before I was born. By the time I was born, you were old. I regret not being born at the same time as you so that I could be with you every day..."
Yang Xiaoting got out of bed and leaned in to take a look. She let out a soft exclamation: "Isn't that girl Song Zhixiu who jumped off the building last year? Is the person beside her her boyfriend?"
Yu Nian's eyelashes fluttered: "Boyfriend?"
Xiao Shanya, who had been silent all this time, mumbled: "What boyfriend? Maybe it was just something she imagined. The seniors and seniors from the previous year all knew that Song Zhixiu was a very strange person. She was a loner and didn't talk much. Her clothes were old and wrinkled, and she was always the last one to pay the tuition. However, that wasn't the only reason everyone disliked her. Just because Teacher Qi praised her a few times in class, Song Zhixiu actually developed a crush on Teacher Qi. Some classmates saw photos of her secretly taking pictures of Teacher Qi on her phone. He's the male god of our school! No one expected Song Zhixiu to be so timid. She would tremble for half a day if you shouted at her. I saw her twice, being cornered by a group of people who pulled at her clothes and slapped her. She was so scared that she almost peed her pants."
As she was talking, she seemed to recall the scene at that time and couldn't help laughing.
Yu Nian raised her eyes and stared at her. The originally faint black aura around her suddenly grew stronger and almost surrounded her entire body. That was Xiao Shanya's karmic obstacle.
"What about those who bullied Song Zhixiu back then?"
Xiao Shanya frowned, finding Yu Nian's question rather strange: "Naturally, they've gone on to live good lives. Those who wanted to go to college went, and those who wanted to further their studies went abroad. What's there to ask?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her face suddenly contorted. She covered her stomach and got out of bed.
Yang Xiaoting was startled and quickly tried to stop her: "Where are you going? The dormitory teacher said we're not allowed to go out at night."
But Xiao Shanya pushed Yang Xiaoting away forcefully and turned to run towards the toilet. Yu Nian stepped aside and blocked her way. She stuffed the talisman paper into Xiao Shanya's hand and said in a cold tone: "If you want to live, don't let the talisman paper out of your sight."
Although Xiao Shanya in front of her was just a virtual image in the evil situation, if something happened to the virtual image in the evil situation, her real body in real life would also be affected.
Xiao Shanya impatiently took the talisman paper and ran to the restroom at the end of the corridor. She hesitated for a moment as she entered the toilet, mumbled "weird", and then threw the talisman paper in her hand into the trash can.